The building, which will provide accommodation for 24 of the school’s 50 boys, means that rooms previously used as dormitories in the main building can be used as additional teaching space. The secondary school caters for boys from around Surrey with emotional and behavioural problems and since it was founded in 1973 has provided weekday boarding for about half its pupils. Derry Close, the school’s headteacher, said: “Gary is a friend of the school and this was his third visit here. He takes an interest and supports the school. “He is very popular with the boys and they just love him visiting. “It raises their self-esteem for somebody as high profile as that to come here. “They relate to him because it’s football and it goes without saying they are all into football.” The head added that the school, which was founded on the former site of a comprhensive secondary, now has a “residential block of a much higher standard” and they are the “facilities of the standard that the boys deserve”.